Adrianne Welte of Carlinville, center, goes up to head the ball away from Roxana goalie Braeden Lackey, left in the first half of Thursday’s game in Wood River.

Adrianne Welte of Carlinville, center, goes up to head the ball away from Roxana goalie Braeden Lackey, left in the first half of Thursday’s game in Wood River.

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Pete Hayes | The Telegraph

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GIRLS PREP SOCCER: Roxana rallies to edge Cavies in OT 2-1

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WOOD RIVER — Roxana girls soccer coach Lori Yates knows the formula: If your team is outshot and has no corner kicks, your goalie better have a good game.

That’s the way it worked out Thursday for Yates and her Shells, who rallied to edge Carlinville 2-1 in double overtime in a South Central Conference showdown at the Wood River Soccer Park.

Roxana trailed 1-0 at halftime, but got a penalty kick goal from Emma Lucas to tie it in the second half and got the game winner from her early in the second 10-minute overtime period

“Braeden Lackey had a great game,” Yates said of her goalie. “And Emma came through. It wasn’t easy for her though. (Carlinville) did a really good job marking her, but she got loose just a couple times.”

Lackey, a senior who’s headed to Lewis and Clark Community college to play volleyball, made seven saves. She also snuffed out most of the Cavies’ eight corner kicks.

That, as it turned out, was a couple times too many for the Cavies, who suffered their second loss of the season and their first in the conference. Carlinville is 12-2-1 overall and 7-1 in the conference. Roxana is 11-2-3 overall and 7-0 in the SCC with one league game remaining against Pana.

The showdown for first in the conference took a decided Carlinville tilt on the stat sheet except in the goals-scored column. The Cavies outshot the Shells 9-3 and had an 8-0 advantage in corner kicks.

“The score is the stat that matters the most,” Hayes said. “I was happy with our effort, for the most part. It was intense. I thought we created some scoring chances, but (Lackey) did a good job in goal for them.”

Carlinville took the lead early. Makayla Procter scored from close range inside the right post after a cross from the left side by Lexi Egelhoff in the third minute to make it 1-0.

Midway through the second half, Lucas got a pass from midfield, then took it into the Cavies’ penalty area with speed. But she was fouled as she dished the ball off and a penalty kick was called. Lucas converted the PK just inside the right post past a diving Carlinville goalie Sarah DeNeve to it it 1-1 in the 46th minute.

That was the way it stayed until Lucas scored in second minute of the second 10-minute overtime. She took a pass from Mykala Rosales and rifled a low shot from about 18 yards through a maze of legs just inside the left goal post for the winner.

“We knew this would be one of our toughest games of the year and it was,” Yates said. “(Carlinville) has a very good team. I was proud of the way our girls hung in there and the way they pulled it out.”